[lojban-beginners] I want an apple

[MorphemeAddict <lytlesw@gmail.com>]

Someone (David Gowers?) recently (Aug. 17, 2011?) wrote:

 

"You have an object in troci x2, but troci x2 is an abstraction. This is the same problem as with {mi djica lo plise} -- you don't desire an apple, you desire to possess an apple, or eat an apple... This is known as sumti raising. You need to put an abstraction in x2, then you will not be sumti-raising -- and will make sense, besides."

 

I've wondered about this before. Why is wanting an object called sumti-raising? Why must the object (x2?) of {djica} be an abstraction? Is it simply because that's how the word was defined? If so, why was it defined that way?

 

stevo

 

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